Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-05-28
THE LITTLE FOLKS.
The Greedy Boy.


HhsreS small boy that sits at our table
And eobbles as fast as he's able:
And chide though you may,
You can't hear what you say,
He makes such q terrible Babel
9aid his parents. who sit at the table.
No the bad boy that made such Babel
And roared, Il want more
you've been helped twice before;
Get down, sir, and 60 from the tablet
Now, children, consider the fable,
ER they walked that young man from the table.
1.sne Zoology for tho Little Folks at Home.
-Oh, HarryI What do you think
Mra. Browne has just been to see
mzmma, and she told her the funniest
STORY about q pet SEAL
"A pet seal? Well, that is funny
Isn't it? She says lady got it in
Alaska, when it was baby, and
brought it up by hand, and thinks as
much of it a. If it were q real live
baby"
But it is alive, isn't it?"
~Of course; but mean real, just like
~. She says it follows the lady about
wherever she goes, and it's perfectly
ridiculous to see it Topping up and
down stairs and all over the house after
her. Katy-that's the girI-hates the
sight of it, and was tickled almost to
pieces the other day when it tumbled
heels over head into the wash boiler
md just missed getting scalded to
death. And where's do you think she
found it one morning when she went to
make the kitchen fre?"
Il don't know. I'm sure. Where was
HI"
an the oven. And Katy said she
1ished she'd left it there and baked it. "
well, they say baked seal isn't bad. "
And the next day she found it in the
refrigerator"
"That must have seemed like homo
80 him. I don't suppose you could
freeze seal to death if you wanted to,
but I'd advise Katy to try the expert
Heut."
~Oh, but Mrs. Browne says it will
break the lady's heart if anything hap
pened to that seal She and her hus-
hand Just worship it. They call it
Solomon, cause they say it's SO wise"
Il guess it's wiser'n they are-they
must be q couple of fools. Still, I
don't know as seals any worse'n an
alligator, and folks make pets of them. =
"a pet alligator? I should think
Shat would be horrid."
$50 should I; but there's no account
aRg for tastes, as the old woman said
when she kissed her COW. Now. I was
xoading snake story only the other
'asyI"
But I thought snake stories were
never true"
well, they amt, as rule. But
they said this one was. It was all
shout q family that had q pet snake"
"a pet snakel" shrieked Sue. ooh
Chats too awfusl It just makes my
blood run cold"
-But this was q real nice snake, Sue,
'znd very highly accomplished"
~Oh, Harry"
That's what the paper said-very
highly accomplished. It played the
piano"
Nov, Harry"
Yes, actually played The Flowers
That Bloom in the Spring. and danced
the Sailors Hornpipe.'"
20, you're foolingl That's not fair"
No, I amt. It was all in the paper,
rand, of course the papers don't lie.
20, don't they? I heard papa say
the other morning when he was read
ing the paper, that he never saw such
- pack Of lies in his whole life. But
smay, Harry, did you see lilly Sweet
'zer's pet toad down at the beach this
no. Did she have one?"
Yes, it was the dearest little thing,
and Is gentle as lamb. It would hop
10 the window every day to be fed"
What did she feed it on7"
Milk, mostly. And after it had
aaken all it wanted, it would stand
'seill, shut its eyes, and wait to have it's
hack rubbed.
"A toad have it, back RUBBED"
Really and truly! lilly said it's
back was weak, and she was q magnetic
healer. Anyway the toad seemed to
like it, and would hop off to it's hole as
lively as you please when the treat
nent-Tlly called twas over"
talking of pets" said Jack, who
mad been reading in corner, during
ahe preceding discourse on natural his
sery, you never saw the educated |
sess, did you?"
Educated feas? No, nor you,
ether"
Yes, but did. They were on ex-
hibition, and they're perfectly wonder
fNi. The man who had trained them
nould make 'em do most anything, and
L tell you it was a pretty sight to see
iem harnessed up and drawing tiny
little carriage back and forth on sheet
sf glass"
"Harnessed up?' said Sue.
Yes, harnessed up. just like horses.
You never ssw anything 50 cute. There
was dozen of 'em in all-eight in har-
ness, one as coachman, one as footman,
and two inside. And, after you'd seen
en-, the man would approach you very